bearing children

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She collected some of the most fascinating information on the latter by watching Flo, an older female with a bulbous nose and an amazing retinue of suitors who was bearing children well into her 40s.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 1, 2025

This finding, noted Ryan, points to some aspect of bearing children -- rather than sociocultural factors associated with early fertility or sexual activity -- as a driver of biological aging.

From Science Daily • Apr. 8, 2024

Growing up in Tennessee, Parton saw women who built their lives around bearing children and growing their families.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2023

They housed mostly young women who were cast out by their families for bearing children deemed illegitimate in a largely conservative religious society.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 24, 2021

There are whole lives being lived in this place, sleeping and eating and working, bearing children and raising families and dying.

From "Allegiant" by Veronica Roth